Genghis Khan: The man behind the horse

While it is difficult to apply terms such as "good" and "bad" to people, I'll ignore that philosophic landmine for the sake of this post. Overall, I think that he was good. From what we've seen from the video so far, it seems as though his actions, while brutal, were not random or unjust. One of the professors from the video had the opinion that Khan had foresight when it came to who he killed/helped. In the slightly altered words of David Fincher, "You don't get to rule the largest land empire in history without killing a few innocents." Another factor that supports this opinion is that Khan had to please his people, who, according to the video, were constantly pressuring him to continue to conquer. And lets not forget: it was the man's dream to conquer the world. He was just following his dreams, and you can't fault him for that anymore than you could fault a little girl-become ballerina who always dreamed to dance (although in this case it was a little boy-become murderous warlord, but that's inconsequential).